By Adele on 27 October, 2011
Listen to author Al ‘Crow’ Fletcher talk about his experiences at Westbrook Farm Home for Boys. Read more >
Posted in documents, events, Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged autobiography, child labour, education, prisons, Queensland, Westbrook
By Clayton Rogers (guest author) on 27 September, 2011
Local Westbrook resident and Inside website contributor Clayton Rogers invites all Westbrook Boys Home survivors to the Westbrook Family Fun Day. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians | Tagged family, Queensland, Westbrook
By Adele on 5 September, 2011
Sally Pryor, from ‘The Canberra Times’, reported on last week’s talk by Alfred Fletcher, author of ‘Brutal’, at the National Museum of Australia. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, events, Forgotten Australians, memories, photos | Tagged autobiography, photographs, Queensland, Westbrook
By Adele on 24 August, 2011
Former inmate of Westbrook Farm Home for Boys, Alfred Fletcher, will speak at the National Museun of Australia on Thursday 1 September 2011 at 12.30 – 1.30 pm, in the Friends Lounge. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged Queensland, Westbrook
By Al "The Crow" Fletcher (guest author) on 15 August, 2011
‘The Superintendent said, “Don’t look at me in that tone of voice” and banged boy 90′s head several times against the tin wall’. Read the full 1961 report of the Inquiry into Westbrook Farm Home for Boys by Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr AE Schwarten. Read more >
Posted in documents, Forgotten Australians | Tagged child labour, files/records, Queensland, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Westbrook
By Warren Porter (guest author) on 5 April, 2011
Following on from his autobiography, “A Tormented Life”, Warren Porter writes the story of his deceased brother, Graham Davis. Warren writes about how Graham was sent to Westbrook Farm Home in 1961. Warren argues the case for a Royal Commission into the treatment of children in Australian institutions. Read more >
Posted in documents, Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged child labour, files/records, friendship, Mt Penang, prisons, Queensland, Royal Commission, sexual abuse, Westbrook
By Adele on 4 April, 2011
In 1950 Brisbane City Mission made this film about Westbrook Farm Home in order to promote its charity work. Read more >
Posted in film, Forgotten Australians | Tagged child labour, Queensland, Westbrook
By Al 'Crow' Fletcher (guest author) on 10 January, 2011
Al Fletcher’s horrifying but sadly true story, as told to Cheryl Jorgensen,”Brutal: Surviving Westbrook Boys Home” was re-released in 2010. Read more >
Posted in Forgotten Australians, memories, Stolen Generations | Tagged apology, autobiography, prisons, Queensland, Westbrook
By Adele on 14 September, 2010
In his essay ‘Reap as you sow’ Bernie Matthews describes the brutal treatment – and criminalisation – of children in institutions. Read more >
Posted in articles/lectures, Forgotten Australians, Stolen Generations | Tagged Hay, New South Wales, Parramatta, prisons, Queensland, Tamworth, Westbrook
By Warren Porter (guest author) on 28 April, 2010
Throughout their childhood, Warren and his brother Graham endured harsh institutional conditions. Along with vivid descriptions and drawings, Warren’s story includes historical photographs and documents. Read more >
Posted in art, documents, drawing, Forgotten Australians, memories | Tagged autobiography, Blackheath, Queensland, Riverview, Salvation Army, Westbrook, WR Black
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